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I like it when the same teams enjoy success, I also hate all mid-majors in college basketball(examples: Butler, VCU, FGCU, George Mason).

Jesus. Do you also root for the villains in movies, and enjoy watching people from Walmart run small family-owned businesses out of existence too?

Meh, I don't think there's anything wrong with that. I have nothing against mid-majors and underdogs in general, but I do feel like something is wrong whenever the Dukes and UCLAs of basketball are not relevant during the season. Same goes for the Yankees in baseball, Celtics and Lakers for NBA, and USC and Texas in college football.

Exactly, I like the fact that the best teams stay on top. I enjoy Texas, Alabama, USC, Ohio State, LSU, and other well known teams to be ranked in NCAAF. In NCAAB I like it when MSU, OSU, Syracuse, Duke, Kansas, Kentucky, UCLA, Arizona, and other well knowns do good. I dislike the "cinderella stories" in the tournament because they destroy what I like to see, old prestigious universities battling it out in March.

Man, something must be wrong with you woodshacksz. Who doesn't like a good underdog? I don't know. Maybe because I'm from a city that practically worships one (VCU). I love it when teams like Butler, and George Mason show up and hand it to the big guys.

I love the pullover jersey look in baseball. I really don't know why it didn't catch on, it looks cool, and as Paul Lukas said, it makes sense from a practical standpoint.

Unpopular opinion: That's an amazing uniform. The Astros should go back to it full-time.

Exactly my opinion. No lie. It's amazing.

Can we get a sleeved basketball template in raster please? If not, I've been thinking if soccer shirt + basketball shorts would do the trick instead.

Ya, I wouldn't mind a sleeved, it would help with an NBA re-design I may/may not do.

Thanks JT.

I never understood all of that Isles black jersey hate.

Me neither, I actually tend to like a lot of the hated hockey uniforms, but honestly, I think most of them would've been really good minor-league jerseys instead of NHL.

I usually am with the haters, I despise that Sabres alt, but something about the isles.... some how worked for me.

I don't really have much of a taste for hockey uniforms, so the Sabres new alt looks pretty gorgeous IMO.

Also, despite my first though, UNC and Duke's new football uniforms have really grown on me alot. I love the Black-Blue-Black look for UNC, it's really nice. Duke's is nice as well, they only gripe I have is the dumb BFBS being incorporated into the uniforms. I'd prefer if more basketball-first schools took designs from their basketball teams and threw them on a football uniform. Lots of potential there, Syracuse, Duke, UNC.

Population/metro area isn't the only factor. Is it a baseball market? Will they be able to have their own fanbase? They may have a big Braves fanbase there that it may not be much different than the Rays in Tampa Bay where they don't draw much of their own fans but more fans of the opposing team.

I don't live there, but all around the Greensboro-Raleigh-Charlotte triangle is an area that's less than an hour away, and has almost 5 million people living there. I'd imagine quite a few Braves fans would switch. I think Charlotte would work, I love the Orioles, but if Richmond (VA) got a team, I would be all over them. I'm sure plenty of people 'round there feel the same way.

Well Portland seems to be the top of the list with markets like San Jose and Sacramento only in play for the A's. San Antonio is actually a possible target. Charlotte may not necessarily be "low", but there's not really all that many markets that are actually in play for a team. Pretty limited. Montreal I believe will be given some consideration and deserves to be looked into as much as possible, but as IceCap has mentioned, it may now not be "English" enough anymore to really support a baseball team.

Charlotte is probably as big as any of those cities, metropolitan area wise. But, yeah MLB is pretty limited in terms of expansion.

Vancouver and Indy are not really a prime destination. Charlotte is possible but pretty low on the list, so unlikely.

If Charlotte is so low, where else would be better?

MLB Realignment:

AL East:

New York Yankees

Boston Red Sox

Toronto Blue Jays

Baltimore Orioles

Cleveland Indians

AL Central:

Chicago White Sox

Indianapolis Speed (Tampa Bay Rays relocation)

Kansas City Royals

Detroit Tigers

Minnesota Twins

AL West:

LA Angels of Anaheim

San Jose A's (Moved from Oakland)

Seattle Mariners

Texas Rangers

Houston Astros

NL East:

New York Mets

Philadelphia Phillies

Miami Marlins

Atlanta Braves

Washington Nationals

NL Central:

Cincinnati Reds

St.Louis Cardinals

Chicago Cubs

Pittsburgh Pirates

Milwaukee Brewers

NL West:

LA Dodgers

San Fran Giants

Arizona D-Backs

San Diego Padres

Colorado Rockies

In my opinion, the Tampa Bay Rays will relocate to Indianapolis in the future to become the Indianapolis Speed. With the relocation, Indy and Cleveland agree to swap divisions with the Speed in the AL Central and the Tribe in the AL East. Also the A's successfully move out of Oakland and into San Jose with intense politically-charged talks against the Giants.

I think the Rays should probably move to Charlotte. Charlotte's a great baseball city. Plus it merges the gap between DC and ATL. That or Newark or Brooklyn, but that probably won't happen anytime soon. I think the A's should probably move to Vancouver or Portland if they can't get a new stadium.

I love the bulls pinstripes.

Looks around

I kinda like sleeved Basketball jerseys

*Punches Fallen in the Face*

Is there any reason I'm not getting any notification for my likes anymore? I found 2 random likes on my account today and no notification. The only reason I'd like them (no pun intended) is to see who exactly liked my post.

Edit----Notifications. Are your settings right?

I just got that like. But 2 others are missing,..

Is there any reason I'm not getting any notification for my likes anymore? I found 2 random likes on my account today and no notification. The only reason I'd like them (no pun intended) is to see who exactly liked my post.

That this:

Looks WAAY better than this:

That Clippers jersey sucks... because of the sleeves, They don't seem to bother me on College uni's but I hate all NBA sleeved uniforms.

I'd like to request an Adidas Techfit and/or an UA football template. You'd make one man very happy.

Also, does anyone have a baseball cap template? I could use one.

That these:

Look better than these

Maryland will be gone by the time The Ville joins.

Thanks for reading...

ACC Realignment for y'all

BTW, Maryland is in red since they are leaving, and Louisville is in blue.

Atlantic/Coastal Alignment

Atlantic:

Clemson

Georgia Tech*

Pittsburgh

Syracuse

Virginia

Virginia Tech

Wake Forest

Louisville*

Coastal:

Boston College

Duke

Florida State

Maryland

Miami

North Carolina

NC State

*Georgia Tech replaces Maryland in the Coastal Division after Louisville joins.

I think this alignment balances out the power a lot, the de facto top 4 programs (FSU, Miami, Clemson, VA Tech) are all split into 2 Divisions. Plus, most rivalries are kept. All that are missed can be made up with the protected Rival system, here's how that would go.

Clemson - Florida St.

GA Tech - Duke

Pittsburgh - Maryland

Syracuse - Boston College

Virginia - North Carolina

Virginia Tech - Miami

Wake Forest - NC State

In 2014, Pitt would play Duke, and Louisville would play Georgia Tech.

North/South

North

Boston College

Maryland

Pittsburgh

Syracuse

Virginia

Virginia Tech

Wake Forest

Louisville

South

Clemson

Duke

GA Tech

Florida St.

Miami

North Carolina

NC State

Louisville replaces Maryland in North after 2013.

This alignment is more for appeasing geography nerds than balancing out power. Clemson, Miami, and Florida St. are in the South. VA Tech is really the only big program in the North. Protected Rivals could go like this

BC - Florida St.

Maryland - NC State

Pittsburgh - GA Tech

Syracuse - Clemson

Virginia - North Carolina

Virginia Tech - Miami

Wake Forest - Duke

Louisville would take Maryland's spot there.

The Atlantic/Coastal seems like a better fit for me.

Depends on your definition of "wasteland". For bigtime college football, yeah - the northeast is a pro region. A lot of that IMO has to do with the sheer number of ivy league and other top tier insitutions that don't play or or aren't D1, plus that there are so many transplants in Boston, NYC, Philadelphia, DC, etc. due to the economic conditions in those areas and the amount of jobs / good schools. It's just not as partisan as certain parts of the south, where everyone in a 100 mile radius of a SEC school is born there, grows up there, attends said school (or not even), and lives there as an adult. Obviously that's a dangerous generalization, but I'm exaggerating a little bit to make my point. It's different - not better or worse, just different.

Pro fandom is more regional and less partisan than college, since out of say 6M people in the Phila metro area, they may have gone to 000s of different colleges which dilutes the fan base of any of them, yet most of the non-transplants will follow the local pro team.

It could be argued that the same factors that make the northeast such a "wasteland" for big time college sports are the same factors that make it the best region for pro sports.

For the most part, I think this is pretty spot-on. In fact, I think it's entirely accurate to say the northeast outgrew its need for college athletics quite some time ago... at least when it comes to the more "mainstream" sports like football and basketball. What interest there is in college athletics out there seems limited to sports like hockey and lacrosse, that never truly caught on in the rest of the country.

I wouldn't consider the Northeast "horrible" when it comes to basketball, UConn and Cuse are stout programs, at least not as bad as football. The NE's primetime football days were when Walter Camp was coaching and Harvard and Yale were practically :censored:ting national championships.

I only would consider the Northeast a "wasteland" for football. With the low number of D-1 football schools, along with the low talent level winds up with several top recruits heading to places like ND, Michigan, Ohio St. or in the SEC puts the schools there at a big disadvantage when it comes to recruiting, Rutgers is the only school that does relatively decent in recruiting. While Syracuse, BC, and UConn are left to rot in the rust.

Thank you!

Sorry to sound like a noob but how do I use spoliers? I read the first two pages and found nothing about it, but was too lazy to read the other 20.

Can't wait until the Mega-City One Titans relocate to Manhattan Kansas!

lol EA logic, Buffalo can hold 2 teams but Miami can't hold one WTF? That's why I haven't played a single Madden since 2010.